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SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH, 12, 1925
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First Game in State High
School Tournament Is Be
tween Salem and Wallowa
at 7:30 Tonight
FINAL ARRANGEMENTS
MADE BY WILLAMETTE
University Hosts Take Steps
. to Insure Spectators From
Any Disorders
The first game of the Oregon
State high school basketball tour-
nament will be played between
Salem high audi Wallowa high in
the Willamette gym at 7:30 to-
night. Med ford high, winner of
last year will meet Franklin high
of -Portland, In the second game
of the evening to be called at
: 8:3ft o'clock.
AH arrangements for the tour
nament are now complete. The
gym .will be well policed to pre
vent any disorder In the crowd.
The officials have been selected
; from Corvallis as that school will
not enter a team this year and
there can be no question about
prejudice. Both men are exper
ienced In' this department of bask
etball and are well known through
out the stale. The referees win
be R. O. Coleman and P. J. Schiss-
ler." ,;v;;;:."..-
A few of the teams have already
arrived in Salem and are staying
at the local hotels. Pendleton and
Astoria have arrived and the Argo
squad was expected to arrive at a
late hour last night.
Band Will Play
The upper balcony will be re
served for the representatives of
the press. A special Western Un
ion wire has been installed and
will be available for the use of any
of I the visiting men. Two tele
phones are also being installed so
that any visiting school who may
desire to may receive a running
account of the games in which
their teams compete.
As a special feature the Wil
lamette University band will sit
in the balcony and entertain the
crowd during intermissions and
between halves. The Willamette
band has been quite well received
by the students and spectators
when it made an appearance dur
ing the University games.
Doors Open at 7 p. m.
The general admission Bale will
start at 7 o'clock this evening,
although the doors will be open
for those having season tickets at
6:45. The students will .be ad
mitted at the east entrance to
avoid congestion. Those having
general admission season tickets
are requested to come at 7:15 so
as to be in their seats before the
teams come out on the floor.
The Oregon State high school
tournament means a great deal to
Salem as well as to Willamette
university. The tourney brings
into Salem not only the district
champions of the state but hun
dreds of fans who are Interested
in the game. Besides the adver
tising the town receives, the local
fans are enabled to see nine of the
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CAUSES VAGflWCIES
Three Guards at Prison Fired
By Warden Because of
Laxity at Night
Discipline is as necessary at the
penitentiary as in the army, ac
cording to Warden A. M. Dalrym
ple. who discharged three guards
recently when they had been
found taking an occasional nap
while on night duty.
Prison rules require the guards
to punch a dial every 30 minutes
while on duty, showing the turn
key that they are on the Job. Be
cause several of the posts did not
register in the office by skipping
an occasional ring, the posts were
investigated and the men- found
dozing in their chairs. .
All three discharged guards
live in Salem and two Salem men
have been employed to fill their
places. Those going to work at
the prison are C. A. Baker and I.
W. Hubbard. The third man has
not yet been selected.
1PPIIMD0TY
Invading
by U.S. Undersea Graft
in Thrilling Battle
ABOARD USS; SEATTLE AT
SEA, OFF COAST OF LOWER
CALIFORNIA. March 11 (By the
Associated; Press); - Submarines,
not airplanes, "saved" the United
States from invasion last night
and today Hn the greatest naval
maneuvers ever staged In the Pa
cific.;! t- , j :. .
With the American navy, 109
ships of the line and their auxili
aries, divided into two fleets, one
an enemy 'attempting to establish
a base of operations on the Mexi
can coast, the other defending, the
great S type submarines. Uncle
Sam's newest and most powerful
undersea; fighting craft, dived into
thefr first engagement on the side
of the defense and wrecked the in
vader's plans. v
The S boats; tremendous under
water craft, 300 feef long with a
cruising radius of thousands of
miles,' came from Panama with the
blue scouting fleet and last night
sought out the black enemy racing
DSLER
TOTIESTI
Member of Defunct Cana
dan Firm Obliged to Tes
tify in Oil Trials
TORONTO, March 11. The
United States government was vic
torious today in its fight to com
pel HI S.. Osier and six others of
the defunct Continental Trading
Company, jLtdl, to tell some of
the things they know in connec
tion with Ihe Teapot Dome oil
leases. Osier and his associates
lost their appeal from an order of
Justice Riddell handed down last
December :1 3, when the appellate
division of Ontario ruled today
that theyj must answer certain
questions ;put. to them by the
United States special attorney in
the oil scandal prosecution. .
The Canadian end of the famous
case came to light last September
when the j American lawyers
brought Osier Into court alleging
contempt in that he had refused
to answer certain questions put to
him by United States Consul
Shantz, acting as a commissioner.
Osier, a king's counsellor, imme
diately resorted to devious legal
proceedings to escape the purpose
of the Americans, keeping his
questioners at bay until December
13, when Justice Riddell ordered
that he must answer..
Two days later his attorneys
filed an appeal ' and it was this
action that the appellate division's
ruling today settled.
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Seventy-Five Leading Citi
zens Enter Field in Drive
fori New Members
SALEM CHAMBER OF
MM
CT
What was undoubtedly the most
outstanding membership drive ever
put on fcyj the Salem Chamber of
Commerce was given a kick-off
last night at the special meeting
called for, the occasion. Nearly
60 men gathered for the dinner
that had been prepared for the
occasion, which preceded the talk
given by Thomas B. Kay, -. state
treasurer. ! - ,
"The f wide-awake men of the
community are with the Salem
Chamber , of Commerce and are
giving service to their fellowmen.
It is necessary that such men -be
alive in each community for it Is
they who keep things going," was
the declaration of the speaker.
"The natural feeling of pride
that come to a man when he has
accomplished something Is a great
thing. It , comes to the men whe
are affiliated with an organization
that is doing things. It is the
feeling that causes a man to grow,
and to look back' on things when
he gets old. He has a feeling that
comforts hint,5 he knows some
thing hag, been accomplished by
his own efforts. 1 " 4
- Ir. Kay gave a short aeeount
of the early activities of the board
of trade, which functioned for the
chamber of commerce in the early
days of Salem's growth. He told
of the gathering of a Bmall group
of young business men who had
visions of accomplishments. They
met in a! small restaurant and
paid for their own meals.- Around
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Navy Ruined
through the mooBlit sea to estab
lish a hostile base of operations
on the Mexican seaboard.
The black fleet, a backbone of
giant dreadnaughts protecting
their supply ships with a fringe
of destroyers guarding its pro
gress, was near Its goal.!
About 9 o'clock the alarm was
sounded but too late the ; sub
marines of the jblue defenders al
ready had penetrated the black
destroyer line and the swift blue
scout cruisers, coming up in the
rear of the black armada, com
pleted the rout, ' !
Several: black destroyers opened
fire on the S boats and one of the
latter replied with three torpedoes
that found their marks in the
block line. , ' ! -
Then the destroyers of i both
clashed in the fight and a battle
royal between destroyers and sub
marines followed. 3
While this was raging the blue
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Death Drink Said to Have
Been Given Woman to
Get Life Insurance ' 1
KANSAS CjlTY, March 11.
Mrs. Dora Gage, 52, of Atchison,
Kan., died hefe late today after
telling the police ; that Roy M.
Turner, Atchison real estate deal
er, had given jher a poison drink
to obtain insurance she had made
out to him. Turner was arrested
in a hotel room to which . Mrs.
Gage's screams had attracted at
tendants. He is held for ques
tioning. ;
Two maids who forced an en
trance to the' room found Mrs.
Gage lying on; the floor suffering
acutely. Beside her, the maids
said, stood Turner, adjusting his
necktie before? mirror. r
"He is killing me,7 the women
quoted Mrs. Gage as saying. "He
wants my life Insurance. He
made me drink poison. ; He just
threw the bottle out of the win
dow." ; : j
Mrs. Gage died at a hospital
soon afterward after repeating 4o
the police her declaration ; that
Turner had poisoned her.
After his arrest, the police said
two life insurance policies made
out to him by- Mrs Gage were
found in his possession. The poli
cies aggregated about $7,000. Tur
ner explained j that he 'held the
policies as security noMrs. Gage's
note.: He saicj that he had pur
chased a farm1 for her near Ne
vada j Mo. I
ATCHISON, j Kan., March 11.
Mrs. Cora Gage drove to Kansas
City this morning with Roy i M.
Turner, who ia held in connection
with her death. Mrs. Gage was
divorced three years ago and liv
ed here with her daughter, Mrs.
Russell Stanley. ' 1
Turner was born and reared in
this county. Shortly after his mar
riage about three years ago his
wife was drowned when a canoe
in which she was riding with Tur
ner capsized In the Cottonwood
river, near Emporia, Kan, Turner
swam to shore, f. He was arrest
ed in connection with his wife's
death, but was released.-
CALL IS ISSUED '
FOR STATE MOKEY
Depositories Must Give Up
Nearly One-Third of Funds
to Meet Interest , ": '
In order to meet interest on
state bonds-: and , to retire state
highway . bonds April 1, ' State
Treasurer Kay has notified banks
carrying state- moneys on deposit
that a withdrawal Is imminent.
Between 25 and 30 per cent of the
state funds so deposited, totaling
nearly $1,750,000, will be used.
' The withdrawal will work some
hardship upon eastern Oregon in
stitutions. State Treasurer .Kay
said, but the notice is being sent
out early enough to - permit .the
banks to meet the situation.
- Interest en etate'boads- amounts
to Sl.325,000 and on the highway
bonds about $1,300,000. Of this
amount $1,000,000 will be refund
ed by the substitution of state
bonds on which the state will pay
46 per cent Interest against 6
per cent.
ROOSEVELT IS
HEARD 1 OIL
LEASE AFFAIR
Former Assistant Secretary
of Navy Takes Stand at
Teapot Dome Lease An
nulment Suit
FALL STATED TO HAVE
KEPT MATTER SECRET
Attempt Made By Roosevelt
to Leave Entire Adminis
tration to Navy
CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 11.
(By the Associated Preas). Op
positional testimony of Theodore
Roosevelt, former assistant secre
tary of the navy; and the introduc
tion by the government Of a mass
of letters and telegrams! intended
to show that Albert B. Fall, form
er secretary of the interior, at
tempted to keep secret! the fact
that he had leased the Teapai
Dome naval oil reserve to Harry
F. Sinclair's Mammoth Oil com
pany, today made their way into
the ever-swelling records of the
Teapot Dome i lease : annulment
suit, being tried here before Fed
eral Judge T. Blake Kennedy.
Outstanding jin Roosevelt's tes
timony was bis! statement that he
insisted on a modification of the
executive orderj drafted lor -signature
by President Harding, trans
ferring the Teapot Dome reserve
from the navy ito the Interior de-
partment, so that the navy would
have the final
'say"j in adminis
trative affairs connected with tfce
reserve.
Roosevelt said that the tenta
tive draft of the order which came
from the interior department was
not satisfactory to him- that ho
at first took the position that the
reserve should not be relinquished'
to the Interior department. As it
was signed byi the president, li
said i in thedeposition, j the : naYJtj
was to have been in control ovrtjj to improve it and make It
matters governing administration
of leases to private concerns, v
After receiving the . original
draft of the j order. Roosevelt
averred, he conferred with ' Rear
Admiral Griffin and others In the
navy department, some of whom
suggested changes; that various
revised drafts wfere then made and
submitted to Edwin Denby, then
secretary of the navy. "If yon
get Fall to agree to the j modifica
tion I will agree," Roosevelt quot
ed Denby as saying. After both
secretaries agreed, Roosevelt's de
position said, he document) was
taken to President Harding who
signed it May $1, 1921.
Roosevelt's Reposition said he
knew neither ot the leasing of the
Elks Hill navsil reserve in Cali
fornia nor the Teapot Dome lease
until they were publicly announc
ed and that he had always been
under the impression that it was
not the Intention of the navy de-
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, SEATTLE, Wash.. March 11.
Captain Frederick G. Dodge, who
commands the United States coast
guard in the north Pacific ocean
and hasjiis headquarters here, an
nounced today that construction ot
a midget navy to drive rum from
Puget Sound and adjacent waters
thereof was complete.
The last two of 13 picket boats
were delivered today by the Pu
get Sound navy yard, at Bremer
ton, across the! sound from Seattle,
where the government had the 13
built. Fifteen patrol boats, all
constructed at Seattle, had prev
iously been commissioned.
VICTORIA. B. C. March 11.
The 8t earner Stadacona which ar
rived here February 21 after ly
ing a fortnight near San Fran
cisco where she is alleged to have
discharged a, $100,000 liquor car
go, was scheduled to leave here
tonight or tomorrow with a large
cargo of liquor consigned for
South America. The boat "was
rescued by the auxiliary schooner
Chief Skugald from the clutches
of the United States coast guard
which had forbid any one to aid
her. She had run short ot fuel.
Both boats belong to the Western
Freighters, Limited.
The Stadacona, which was over
hauled at Esquimau, B. C, has
been loading a liquor cargo, which
it was said, would bring approxi
mately $500,000.
MIDGET NAVY WILL
PURSUE RUM SHIPS
ARBITRATION IS
HOT HEN UP,
BRITISH STATE
Spokesmen for Great Britain
Declare Policy Is as Dear
to Them as it Is to United
States ;
GENEVA PROTOCOL TO
BE DISCUSSED TODAY
French j and English View
points Will Be Delivered
to Assembly !
1 GENEVA, ; March 1 1. (By The
Associated Press.) Foreshadow
ing tl;e debate tomorrow on the
Genev 1 protocol by-the council of
the' league1 of nations, British
spokesmen i emphasized tonight
their hope that the American peo
ple would not get the idea from
the statement to be delivered by
Aastjiri Chamberlain, British secre
tary f b rj foreign affairs, that Great
Britalpi has in any way abandoned
the jpolicy of settlement of inter
national disputes by arbitration.
That jpolicy, they declared, which
the United States has so long fos
tered, is just as dear to the Brit
ish! as to Americans.
i ; However, like . the Americans,
the English people and those of
British dominions are convinced
that certain questions of an in
ternational nature, for instance
immigration, should be left to the
disposition ! of the states them
selves! :.,!'",'.; . I
i I When Mr. Chamberlain has out
lined the British objections to the
protocol. M.. Briand, whose speech
has .been carefully gone over and
approved by the Paris govern
ment, will present the French
viewpoint. League officials pre
dict! that the French declaration
will: be in strong support of the
protocol, with readiness to listen
recepiively to any suggestions cal-
Greatj Britain.
;! . j The possible tragedy of the pro
tocol's fate which tomorrow's dis
cussion is expected-to decide one
way. jor another, has thrown a
glooiuj I over A Geneva, especially
among , the continental powers
who foresee immense difficulties
in rearranging the agreement in
a form suitable to British desires.
Whatever may happen to the
protocol, it is - evident, however,
that the disarmament questions
are! not yet buried for the confer
ence to control traffic in arms,
which; the United States will at
tends in May at Geneva.
All j the governments, including
thej American, will be requested to
so instruct their delegates that the
question of unifying statistical
systems of classifying arms and
war materials may be taken up
at the May conference. League
officials are of i the opinion that
objections to the draft convention
on arms- traffic prepared as the
preliminary meetings will arise at
the I May conference 1 on two fea
turesj ! ! :-i !! i , ' :
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Aged General of South1 China
Brigades Passes Follow-
ing Long Illness
I'M i : - ,
PEKING, March 12. (By The
Associated Press. ) Dr. Sun Yat
Sen, the South China leader, died
this i (Thursday) morning.
Surgeons who operated on Dr.
Sun j at the Rockefeller hospital
here January 26, declared his ease
hopeless, and gave him only 10
days to live. - The aged Chinese
clung ;t to life, however, the , 10
days passing, leaving him weaker,
but
BtiU alive.
pn February 18, against the ad
vice' of 'the ' hospital authorities,
Dr. Sun was removed by friends
and political assistants to the
head-quarters of the Kuomintang
(people's party? in the former res
idence of" Wellington iKoo former
foreign , minister. It, was there
that he died. :
PLAYGROtTJfD"" PURCHASED ' !
SPOKANE, 4 March . 11.; Par
chase of 53-acres playfield by the
Lewis and Clark High School Play
field association for usj : in the
high school's athletic activities,
was announced at a meeting of
the association today, J ,
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Prcjidenk and Mrs. Coolidge and Vice President
and Mrs. Dawes Reviewixig the Inaugural Parade
C',V Aft
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The President and Vice Prest
dent and their wives are shown in
kthe very comfortable enclosed re-
PROBE CLAIMS
Amortization Records De
clared to Exceed Reason
able Amounts
WASHINGTON, March 11.
The internal revenue bureau, in
collecting war and post-war cor
poration taxes, has allowed $562,
000,000 in amortization claims un
der principles questioned by the
Couzens senate committee, its rec
ord filed with the senate disclosed
today on the basis of testimony by
bureau officials. Similar claims
that are still pending, as set forth
in this testimony amount to ap
proximately $300,000,000.
Through L. H. Manson, counsel,
for the committee and its own en
gineers, with the aid of the bu
reau personnel, vhe committee un
dertook more detailed examination
of several of the allowed claims,
most of them arising out of war
time operations of industrial com
panies. The Berwind-White coal
mining company In Pennsylvania
furnished the chief claim brought
under particular examinations in
this category.
The largest of the claims pend
ing, Mr. Manson oreported to tHe
committee, effects the United
States steel corporation.
"The amount claimed is $83,
482,961," he told tHe committee,
explaining that while the ease was
yet unfinished the engineering es
timates had been approved in the
bureau. "The amortization allow
ed by the unit (income tax) wa3
$55,063,312. The amortization
considered proper- by your counsel
and engineers is $27,136,987.
-The difference in tax is $21,
438,513." Special amortization allowances
were given corporations producing
war material during 1917 and
1918 if they embarked upon Im
provement and construction pro
jects during that period, even
though the actual expenditure was
not made until after the war. The
committee demanded a list of prin
cipal concerns which had been so
treated. -
DEATH OF STUDENT
DECLBf STERf
Young Man Is Found in
Room With Head and Face
Covered With Cuts
SEATTLE, March 11. -Authorities
declared today that an au
topsy will be performed tomorrow
to determine how Sergi Tikhomi
roff, 19, Russian student and son
of' a construction engineer, ot the
Chinese eastern railroad at Har
bin. China, met death here Tues
day. ' Tikhomiroff was found on
the floor of his, room with his
bead and face covered with cuts.
While the wounds, appear to be
slight, they may have caused con
cussion of the brain, a post mor
tem examination revealed.
The autopsy -was ordered when
police said the youth may have
been plain. - .
Tikhomiroff came to Seattle
more than a- year ago and enrolled
in a business college.
STEAMER JtX DISTRESS
i VICTORIA, B. C March 11.
The Japanese steamer Hoyoku
Maru, la reported In distress at the
mouth -of the Strait of J
uan . de
Fuca. "
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2-HOUR LIMIT
UPTO COIll
Amendment to Parking Law
in Business Section to Re
, ceive Action Soon
The amendment to the present
parking ordinance will be submit
ted to the city 'council Monday
night, according to the advice ot
Chris Kowitz, city attorney. Fol
lowing the presentation of a num
ber of petitions to the council, a
motion was entertained which in
structed the city attorney to pre
pare the amendment to the pres
ent city law, which would allow
the parking of automobiles on the
downtown streets fora two hour
period, instead of one hour, as at
the present time. '
1 The placing of the one hour
limit has caused much discussion
to, take- place concerning the mer
its of the law. It caused active
steps to be taken by the different
organizations of the city, special
ly the, business men, to get the law
amended ' in order to secure " a
longer period of time for parking
the machines on the downtown
streets.
The amendment to be presented
at the next meeting of the council
will be incorporated with, an
amendment which will hcange the
regulation concerning the back
ing into a parking space between
two white lines, which have been
painted some' time agd on the
streets.
The codification, or reorgani
zation of the traffic laws of Salem
has not been prepared as yet, but
will be presented to the city
fathers at one of the regular meet
ings later in the month. '
KEGS OF DEER ARE
USED IS ElflDEf E
Liquor Runner Declared to
Have Had Nearly! Mil
lion Dollar Cargo
SAN FRANCISCO. March 11.
Six kegs of beer were rolled into
the couTt- room of United States
District Judge John S. Partridge
here today as evidence against the
British steamer Quadra, a sus
pected rum runner, in the trial of
the f members of " her crew and
others on a charge of violating
the federal prohibition laws and
the American-Canadian treaty re
gulating liquor shipments.
The beer was taken from the
Quadra after she had been brought
into port by the coast guard eat
ter Shawnee, which took her as a
prize off the Farrallon Islands.
The liquor formed part of the evi
dence submitted by H. S. Creigh
ton, a customs officer, who board
ed the vessel after she was brought
into the harbor, and surveyed her
cargo of liquor which was esti
mated to have a value of between
$500,000 and $l,0OO000. '
i Creighton also Introduced what
he termed "the unofficial log" of
the Quadra in which was the fol
lowing entry: ; ; '
"No rest for a booze runner.
Sacking cargo all day."
ATTORNEY 13 ACCUSED ,
TACOMA, Wash., March 11.
Five informations charging Fre
mont Campbell. Sr., Taeoma at
torney, withr lareeny of fands bet
longing to the Pinta Bay mining
company, were filed la superior
court this afternoon by Deputy
Prosecutor J. AJ Sorley. ? '
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DN AP POIIEE
Decision Withheld on Filling
'Post of Attorney General;
Warren Nomination Re
jected NAME OF PORTLAND WAN
SUGGESTED FOR OFFICE
Republican Leaders Say it
"Would Be' Futile to 'Re
Submit Warren
WASHINGTON, March 11.
President Coolldge is withholding
his decision as to filling the post
of attorney general pending a con
ference tomorrow with Charles B.
Warren of Michigan, whose nom
ination "was rejected yesterday by
the senate on a tie vote.
The executive was advised to
day by republican leaders of the
senate that It would be useless to
re-submit Mr. Warren's- nomina
tion. He was told that tbtf nom
ination had' commanded in yester
day's vote practically its 1 full
strength and that oppo.nents would
he able to muster even more votes.
President Own Adviser
, Senators who tailed at the
White House said the president
had kept his own counsel, and
they did not believe Mr. Warren.
nomination would be submitted
for a third time.
After the president had sum
moned Mr. Warren from Detroit,
some administration officials ex
pressed the view that Mr. Cool
idge might offer to resubmit his
name or give him a recess ap
pointment. I
With the belief entertained In
many quarters that Mr. Warrea
wag definitely out of the picture,
there was speculation as to whom
the executive might select for the
post.
Xames Mentioned
Discussion reverted to some of
those who were under consider
ation at the time the place was
made vacant by the nomination of
Harlan Stone of New York to be
an associate judge of the supreme
court.
- Among these were Arthur P.
Rugg, chief justice of the Massa
chusetts supreme court and Gov
ernor Groesbeck- of Michigan.
There was discussion also of the
name of Judge Wallace McCata
ant of Portland. Ore., who, con
trary to plans of republican party
leaders, placed the name of Mr.
Coolidge in nomination for t
president at the 1920 Chicago con-
VeiUKMh -
DALLAS MAN TO SERVE
WASHINGTON. March 1 1
Second Lieutenant Laird V.
woods of Dallas. Or., fin&no
partment reserve officer, has been
ordered to active dlltv Inn. 1
Vancouver barracks for a two'
weeKs- period of duty.
WEDNESDAY
IN WASHINGTON
The senate resumed consider
ation of the Isle of Pines treaty.
,'
President Coolidge named the
.Bunker Hilt eefsqul centennial
commission.
The re8fgnationofJohn W. Rid
dle as; ambassador to Argentina'
was accepted.
t
A proclamation asking observ
ance of the week of April 27-,
May as American forest week
was issued by the president.
President Coolidge was advised
by senate leaders not to re-submit
the nomination of Charles B. War
ren to be attorney general.
'
Charles E. Ebhardt of Kansa.-,
was' nominated minister to Nica
ragua and George T. Sommerlh
of Louisiana, minister to Hondu
ras., i '- '. "' :'i '
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The senate confirmed the nom
ination of - Lieutenant Colon!
James E. Fecht to be assistant
thief of the army service with tfc s
rank of Brigadier general; !
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Chairman Lamport of the hou-
aircraft committee declared Bri
adier General Mitchell had ber-is
vindicated In his testimony regard
ing deficiencies in equipment an J
personnel of tte arfcry &lr Eervic
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